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Author:

Hanshaw, Shirley A. J., author.

Title:

Re-membering and surviving : African American fiction of the Vietnam War / Shirley A. James Hanshaw.

Publisher:

Michigan State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xvi, 307 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

1900-1999
African American soldiers in literature.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Literature and the war.
Heroes in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
War stories, American--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
American fiction.
American fiction--African American authors.
Heroes in literature.
War and literature.
War stories, American.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Historical and Literary Background -- Chapter 2. Untangling a Paradoxical Web for the Black Warrior : The Anansean Motif in Captain Blackman -- Chapter 3. Reading the Signs : Re-Membering the Legacy of Voodoo as Path to Empowerment in De Mojo Blues -- Chapter 4. Playin' It by Ear : The "Jazzerly" Sound of Survival in Tragic Magic -- Chapter 5. Transcending Abstractions by Re-Membering Self in George Davis's Coming Home -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Literary Representation of the African American Experience in Vietnam -- Appendix 2. Visual and Musical Representation of the African American Experience in Vietnam.

Summary:

"A critical study of the black experience in the Vietnam War and its aftermath, this text interrogates the meaning of heroism based on models from African and African American novels: Captain Blackman (1972), John A. Williams; Tragic Magic (1978), Wesley Brown; Coming Home (1984), George Davis; and De Mojo Blues (1985), A. R. Flowers"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1611863716
9781611863710

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1145895719

LCCN:

2019045189

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)